Have you ever wondered if your company is really optimized to deliver the best possible results? Maybe you know that some things could be better, but you’re not sure how much they matter or how you’d prioritize improvements. Perhaps you know that something is absolutely broken, but you’re not sure how to fix it. Top […]
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Great change leaders balance skills across four domains: Vision, Process, Relationships, and Problem Solving. It’s the well-rounded change leader who is best able to navigate constant change. While it’s common for some leaders to have areas of relative strength, focusing too heavily into one or two of these domains often means the others atrophy and
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Nature often gives us cues that our modern life makes easy to miss. Taking a pause in the natural world for just a moment reveals that nearly everything follows a cycle. The earth rotates a revolution that repeats each day and follows a path that repeats every year. Weather follows seasons. Plants sprout, grow, die,
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For Jessica, change is not about winning or egos. Change is about remaining open to possibilities, including evolving oneself through the learning process, working alongside (not against) others, and keeping forward progress at the center.
Perceive Possibilities: Lessons from Jessica Brazier Read More »
… Process is not about setting immutable rules or micromanaging the specific steps that every individual or team will take to move from today’s reality to tomorrow’s vision—it’s about showing people that changes in their behavior have the power to bend the trajectory of the organization and perhaps the world around them.
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One reason that conversations focused on delivering critical feedback are hard is that we tend to overlook a key element: they’re conversations that include both the person we’re communicating a message to—and also ourselves.
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We admire Aimee and Lauren because they are relentlessly rigorous in their approach to doing good business while also being fundamentally committed to recognizing and doing right by people who often have many responsibilities beyond the walls of their workplaces.
Business and Family Can Go Together: Lessons from Aimee Watters and Lauren Hobart Read More »
We frequently hear from leaders that they want to establish environments that better engage (and thereby improve productivity of) their teams. We subsequently hear from teams that their leaders, however brilliant and articulate they may be, seem to sew ambiguity wherever they go.
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Dr. Gonzales’s personal development and striving for balance across the dimensions of change leadership allow her to fly at these different altitudes, while at the same time keeping equity, her personal north star, always in mind.
A Better, More Balanced Leader Every Day | Dr. Daisy Gonzales Read More »
The implications of this way of thinking about change seem big. How differently would we approach most change efforts if we thought about it from the beginning as a big exercise in shared learning, with lead learners leading the way?
Book Review: Leading in a Culture of Change by Michael Fullan Read More »
